Lew Stringer's Pete's Pimple two greetings!..and Marc and the Creepers!

Buster and School Fun 1st December 1984
Artwork: Pete Dredge
Heres the Marc and the Creepers Lew mentioned in the comments of the previous post..
this is written by Mark Rogers..


Oink 5th March 1988
There seems to be two greetings in this strip..:)
A greeting to Kev O'Neill see link to see more info..

http://lewstringer.blogspot.com/2009/02/kevin-oneill-early-days.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_O'Neill_(comics)

Its been fun rereading through my few Oink comics to find this..
I prefer this to Viz it doesn't quite cross over the line..But we all have different tastes..

Thunderthugs B.I.F Bovver Is Fab!!

Buster 14th December 1991.
A special two pager of Tom Thug to advertise a new comic Thunderbirds. This is the era when Blue Peter made Tracy Island the most successful make ever on the program..a whole new generation of kids discovered Thunderbirds for the first time being shown on BBC 2.

I like the outhouse gag and the smokey chimney at Thug Island!

Also I like the colouring of the strip.
Owning a original of Tom thug I can see the real control Lew has with a pen.
Glad this character carried on in Buster when Oink folded..

Lew Stringer drawing for Whoopee!! and Jackpot annual!

From Jackpot annual 1986....see Lews' signature in the first panel..a ghost artist with a name...normally drawn by Tom Paterson.

Hi Peter,

Regarding the Scooper strip. Although I'd been freelancing for Marvel UK since 1983, the Jackpot Annual job was my first published strip for IPC. I'd already drawn the first Tom Thug strip for IPC but that remained unpublished at that time while the company made their minds up about the comic. So Bob Paynter, Group Editor of the IPC humour comics, kindly offered me the Jackpot Annual four pager.

I was asked to ghost Tom Paterson's style, but I was allowed to sign my name to the strip. I was quite anxious drawing it, - my first strip for the mighty IPC, and in an annual too, but very pleased with how it turned out. It's not perfect by any means, and I'm sure I'd draw it differently today, but it was fun to do. I can't remember who wrote the script but Bob Paynter had subbed it and changed some bits before I received it.

The following year I did a six page Bookworm strip for the Whoopee Annual, which I both scripted and drew. This time I was asked to ghost Syd Burgon slightly but give it my own touch. That was a fun one too, as I had Bookworm go to an alien planet.

Lew

From Whoopee!! annual 1987. It was normal practice for other artist to draw other peoples strip. It was a good platform for new comic artists to be tried out.












Lew Stringer who signs this work in a special annual Sci-fi story...very different to a normal Bookworm down to earth story. Its great fun seeing the aliens and monsters drawn in a fun way.

Bookworm normally drawn by the ace Sid Burgon..


Scooper by Tom Paterson

Well worth getting IPC humour annuals there was some nice longer stories in them and different artists experimenting with other characters...

Triffik comic 1992 part 1

The highlights of Triffik!


I like this strip...the drawing looks familiar I'm sure the artist has drawn in comcis before?

John Geering (Bananaman Nutty/Dandy, Puss and Boots Sparky) also drew in Triffik!







Triffik! a very strange short lived comic...which most comic fans have probably never heard of...It did have great work by Lew Stringer on Tough Guy and Scruffy which I'm sure Lew on his blog will tell us more about this comic and these characters. The comic says it was the BDF LTD Communications Innovations Ltd.

The comic had lots of comic adventure stories which was very unusual in the 90's. So the story continued on for weeks.
Tough Guy's origin :)Lots of puns in this strip...

Heres some more reactions to Triffik....it wasn't Triffik! From comicsuk forum
http://www.comicsuk.co.uk/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=789&highlight=triffik
part 2 next time..